Day Quotes

We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.

There wasn't a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

To the infinite, all finites are equal.

Remember me for these days, not the old ones.

No need, no, need. Life is already too short to find it.

God save her from annoying Alphas.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Both princesses immediately looked wary, exchanging glances. "Warn us of what?" Petunia asked. She studied him with those blue, blue eyes and Oliver wondered all over again what he was doing here.

If you can't laugh, you won't make it.

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.

Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.

But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand.

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

I love you every day, Mom

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.

Galen!" The crown princess flung herself into her husband's arms with a glad cry. The other princesses shrieked and threw themselves at their brother-in-law only a moment later.

Wisdom comes from reflection.

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.

Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.

Kids chase the love that eludes them.

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

And then what did you do, Lord Oliver?" Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.